Now use Putty to login to your local windows machine using the newly created hadoop user

Setup hadoop as you would do for any Linux machine- easy option is to copy paster master hadoop installation

Do not forget to setup .ssh files and copying the pub key in master authorized_key file and copying back that authorized_key to this windows machine. Also do add JAVA_HOME in hadoop-config.sh file which should be a /cygdrive/<path to java6> entry

e. Assuming that the master server is already running, run this slave using “bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start datanode” or “bin/hadoop-daemon.sh start tasktracker” to run datanode or task tracker instances.

Next, will write about how I managed to get Hive-0.30 release working with Hadoop 0.20.0 on my small Hadoop cluster with 3 Linux machines and 1 windows machine